Guido Peguero

Guido Peguero de Madrid y Cortez (16 July 1580-17 September 1631) was a Spanish nobleman of the House of Peguero. He was killed in the First Battle of Breitenfeld during the Thirty Years' War.

Biography
Guido Peguero de Madrid y Cortez was born on 16 July 1580 in Madrid in the Kingdom of Castile. Peguero's family were members of the Templar Order since the Battle of Covadonga in 718, and Peguero was trained to be a Templar hunter at an early age. His life goal was to hunt down Assassin Order affiliates across Spain and Portugal, and Peguero was given immense training for this heavy task. Peguero's first assassination occurred when he was seventeen, killing a Spanish official used by the Assassins to put down Templar unrest in Madrid. Peguero allied with some Moorish governors and Spanish criminals in order to start unrest in southern Spain, diverting Spanish troops away from the heartland so that he could launch a war against the Assasins. However, his plot was stopped when the Spanish Assassins killed his right-hand man Qutub, who was the leader of the revolt.

In 1618, Guido Peguero was responsible for starting the Thirty Years War when he encouraged people in Prague to throw three Holy Roman Empire tax collectors out of a window and into a pile of horse manure. Peguero's move was made so that Europe could be divided into several alliances, and the Templars could gamble on which side they would back in the war. Peguero was able to kill Pancrazio Cerasuolo in 1621 and steal the robes of Ezio Auditore da Firenze, which he sold to merchant Silverio Pozo in Toledo. Peguero hunted down more Assassins in northern Italy during the War of the Mantuan Succession, and when the war really began in Germany in 1630, he headed there to stop the Swedish army of Gustavus Adolphus from defeating his Holy Roman allies.

During the First Battle of Breitenfeld, Peguero attempted to assassinate Gustavus Adolphus and steal the Sword of Eden from him. However, he was duelled in the battle by an Assassin named Leon de Aquila, who succeeded in striking him down in the fight. Peguero told him that he was too late to save the world, because war broke out across Europe and the Templars were going to fight to the end. Aquila told him that he knew that the war would not be over for a long time, but told him that it was over for him.